August is National Children's Vision & Learning Month

Did you know that this month is National Children's Vision and Learning Month?  Vision and learning are connected in so many ways.  According to the American Public Health Association, 1 in 4 students in grades K-6 have a visual problem serious enough to impede learning.  Vision involves much more than how well your child sees the eye chart.  Most school and pediatrician screenings only check for distance acuity, so you may think that your child has no visual issues if they can see the 20/20 line.  The reality is that the vision skills required for reading and learning are much more complex than simply reading the eye chart.

A developmental eye exam from an optometrist who specializes in vision related learning problems, like Dr. Kungle or Dr. O'Meara is an in-depth look at how your child's vision is helping or hurting their learning potential.  The examination will include measures of your child's sight, eye control, eye teaming, eye tracking, focusing skills, spatial perception, eye-hand-body coordination, visual memory, visualization skills, and other facets of how your child uses his or her eyes to learn.